MetLife Legal Plans
Top Five Reasons to Enroll
MetLife Legal plans are convenient, cost-effective, and provide broad access to valuable legal services.
MetLife Legal Plans provide the support you need for life’s legal events
Access a team of top attorneys ready to help with a range of legal issues
Here are five reasons to enroll:
- Unlimited access. With over 18,000 vetted network attorneys, you’ll have unlimited use of the plan for covered legal matters.1
- Superior savings. The annual cost of a MetLife Legal Plan is less than the average attorney’s hourly fee.2 For $21 per month (less than a dollar a day), you can have legal experts on your side for as long as you need them. There are no co-pays, deductibles, or additional attorney fees. See how much you could save.
- Use the plan for life’s most common legal matters. MetLife Legal Plans support a range of fully-covered legal services from home purchases and estate planning to traffic ticket resolution.3
- Easy to use. Choose an attorney and make an appointment in minutes—online or over the phone. When you use a network attorney, there are no waiting periods or claim forms.4 When you enroll, you’ll also have immediate access to a digital estate planning solution to create your will, healthcare directive, and financial power of attorney—all in less than 15 minutes.
- Powerful protection. A legal plan protects you, your family (spouse and dependent children), and your assets.
Enroll today and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing that with MetLife Legal Plans, someone always has your back.
Source: MetLife: https://www.legalplans.com/why-enroll.
Legal plans are administered by MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. In California, this entity operates under the name MetLife Legal Insurance Services. In certain states, group legal plans are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan General Insurance Company, Warwick, RI. For costs and complete details of the coverage, call or write the company.
1,3 Some services not available in all states. No service, including consultations, will be provided for: 1) employment-related matters, including company or statutory benefits; 2) matters involving the employer, MetLife and affiliates and plan attorneys; 3) matters in which there is a conflict of interest between the employee and spouse or dependents in which case services are excluded for the spouse and dependents; 4) appeals and class actions; 5) farm and business matters, including rental issues when the participant is the landlord; 6) patent, trademark and copyright matters; 7) costs and fines; 8) frivolous or unethical matters; or 9) matters for which an attorney client relationship exists prior to the participant becoming eligible for plan benefits. Coverage for defense of criminal matters is excluded from insurance coverage for individuals located in New York. For all other personal legal matters, an advice and consultation benefit is provided. Additional representation is also included for certain matters. Please see your plan description for details.
2 LegalPlans.com: Average hourly rate of $391based on years of legal experience, National Law Journal and ALM Legal Intelligence, Survey of Law Firm Economics (2021).
4 You may use a non-network attorney for covered services. MetLife will reimburse you for services based on a set fee schedule. You will be responsible to pay the difference, if any, between the plan’s payment and the out-of-network attorney’s charge for services.